Playing Art

I had a nice comment from Sharon on my previous post and it resulted in this art journal page!

The funny thing is that the bits and pieces are from cleaning up my studio. I was putting them away and knew they would work on this page.

The paper behind the girl is a torn map we used on a trip a few years ago. I put layers of acrylic glazes on both sides and crumpled the edges as it dried so that it would stay in that shape.

The corrugated piece is cardboard from which I had torn the top part ‘cause I like the writing. Then I found I liked the corrugation left behind! That’s it layered with acrylics, glazes, watercolor crayons and here comes the surprise…fingernail polish! The polish was sort of finely glittery and green. I just put it on sparingly here and there in strategic locations!

To write on, I used an old bit of my own wheat paste paper mounted on some thick colored vellum I got from I don’t know where. The vellum was just one of those small bits and pieces of which I have so many different kinds. I’ve collected these over the last bazillion years and I’m trying to figure out how to organize so I can actually use them!

The face was a strange learning thing: It’s done on regular weight light purple paper with watercolor crayons. The whole time I was working on it, It was much darker than it is here. When it dried, it turned I’d say about 50% lighter than how it was as I worked on it. I was shocked! But I wasn’t gonna throw it away. Just lesson learned…Regular weight paper holds the water and makes it look darker than the end result. So I either won’t use that kind of paper again, or I’ll go even darker as I’m painting.

So, when I'm “playing ART”, my mind is in a much sweeter, happier place. And that is the first step to getting the stink out! First steps lead to second and so on…

Ever onward my sweet smelling friends!

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